2017 Movie
Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky · Chile, France · English, French
Alejandro Jodorowsky's surreal style, unleashed
This extremely unusual movie about the life of legendary Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (as in Jodorowsky’s Dune) was financed by an Indiegogo campaign, giving his already unusual style full freedom. There are cardboard trains, ninjas, and disturbing sex scenes. It all serves to tell his life of growing up in a bohemian neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, going against his family, becoming a poet, and joining the Chilean avant-guard movement. Jodorowsky, now 91 years old, went on a 23 year hiatus before making this movie and its prequel, The Dance of Reality, both about his life.
A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
"In this circular portrait of the artist as a young man, Jodorowsky's principal theme is the permanence of impermanence."
— Anton Bitel
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"Whether any of the film's moments are entirely true, totally fabricated, or representative of some larger, psychological truth doesn't matter when you're in the hands of this consummate visual artist."
— Violet Lucca